Elon Musk’s SpaceX achieved a significant milestone on Sunday by catching the massive booster stage from its Starship rocket in a pair of robotic arms as it fell back to the company’s launchpad in southern Texas.
The historic feat, which drew praise from astronauts and space experts, topped a successful fifth test flight for the uncrewed Starship, which blasted off from the Boca Chica starbase at 7.25am local time (1325 BST) on Sunday.
As the rocket’s 71-metre (233ft) Super Heavy booster separated 40 miles (65km) above the Earth, the upper stage pushed on to an altitude of nearly 90 miles, looping around the planet at 17,000 mph before splashing down in the Indian Ocean as planned.
yeah chopstick catch was awesome. the explosion of the spaceship after “landing” in the water wasnt.
the more people think sending some people to mars makes us interplanetary, the less people take action on climate change.
just like you were duped with the boring company so there is no work on a railroad system.
go eat a cybertruck.
Mars transformation to be Earth-like requires 100,000 years. By then we’d either have ended climate change already or it would have ended us
So what are you doing with your life that allows you to judge others so easily?